AAMC offers maternity program for community's immigrants
By JENNIFER CARR, Staff Writer
AAMC offers maternity program for community's immigrants
By JENNIFER CARR, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
08/03/06
A power outage last night left Centro de Ayuda dark and warm to say the least, but it was hardly enough to deter the giggles and excitement of the Latina "mamas-to-be."
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By Alison Harbaugh -- The Capital
Terri Dayney-Smith, a childbirth instructor at Anne Arundel Medical Center, talks though translator Jane Cooper to Sandra Isabel Valosquez, Pricila Jolalpa and her daughter, Teresa Fuentes Cazalez. The hospital’s Comenzando Bien program reaches out to pregnant Latinas to offer health care information and bridge the cultural gap.
Anne Arundel Medical Center's weekly Comenzando Bien class at the Forest Drive center includes a home cooked dinner, answers to all pregnancy queries and a little help bridging the cultural gap for Latina women having their first babies in the United States.
"This is a great cultural experience for the hospital," said Terri Dayney-Smith, a birth instructor at the medical center. "A bridge is being crossed from the Hispanic community that allows them...
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